No Hlaudi weather at sunny SABC?
For more:
Mail & Guardian: 'sunshine news' strategy 'deeply concerning', says media monitoring group... According to the Mail & Guardian report, Media Monitoring Africa reckons the "call by Hlaudi Motsoeneng for 70% of SABC news stories to be positive raises issues of editorial independence". And so it should.
The very call itself smacks of interference in the reporting of the news and I don't know about anyone else, but I actually want to know what's going on out there - good, bad and indifferent - and putting a positive spin on the news isn't going to inform me, and I think most thinking people would concur with that view.
We need to have the news reported accurately, fairly, and without bias... we don't need a load of moonshine... sorry, sunshine.
EWN: Adil Bradlow released... Now this is genuine "good news'... but if a certain national broadcaster has its way, presumably one might not have heard about Bradlow being detained in the first place.